Identification of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms and design of 16S rRNA-directed probes for their detection and quantitation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1175-1182

  Crocetti, Gregory R ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^a   Bond, Philip L ^a   Schuler, Andrew ^b   Keller, Jürg ^a   Jenkins, David ^b   Blackall, Linda L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; POLYPHOSPHATE; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; RNA PROBE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYPHOSPHATES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; PROPIONIVIBRIO; PROPIONIVIBRIO PELOPHILUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOCYCLUS;

EID: 0034051181     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.1175-1182.2000     Document Type: Article

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